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Christian Ferreira
Christian Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Procurement Sciences AI, an AI-native platform built to help businesses find, win, and deliver government contracts. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who deployed to Afghanistan before turning 21, he spent nearly a decade in government contracting - moving from full-stack engineer to senior solutions architect to director of business strategy - before founding the company in 2022 when generative AI matured. In November 2025 the company closed a $30 million Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $40 million, having grown to more than 300 organizations on its platform and enabled billions of dollars in customer contract wins.
Sean Doherty
Sean Doherty is the co-founder and CEO of GovDash, a New York-based AI platform that helps companies win and run U.S. government contracts. What started as a college friendship and a hangout-scheduling app turned into a Y Combinator (W22) company now serving nearly 200 contractors whose customers booked over $5B in awards in a single year. In January 2026 GovDash raised an oversubscribed $30M Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $40M, as Doherty pushes to automate the entire government-contracting lifecycle from opportunity discovery to post-award delivery.